# Setting artifact description within Yocto

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/setting-artifact-description-within-yocto/2450>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/setting-artifact-description-within-yocto/2450 "2020-09-15T07:59:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![miklosj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@miklosj](https://hub.mender.io/u/miklosj)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/setting-artifact-description-within-yocto/2450/1 "2020-09-15T07:59:46Z")

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Hello!

My team has been using Mender for quite some time. As a result, we have several artifacts uploaded to our Mender backend, that we would like to keep easy to identify.

Setting the artifact name in Yocto is straightforward, but we would also like to set the description within the build system (for displaying the changelog in the Mender backend, for instance). I cannot find a reference to this in Mender’s Yocto recipes, therefore I wonder if it is possible?

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**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/setting-artifact-description-within-yocto/2450/2 "2020-09-15T13:57:30Z")

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I believe the description field is a Web-UI feature and not a part of the underlying artifact. @mzedel can you confirm?

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**Author:** ![mzedel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mzedel/32/261_2.png) [@mzedel](https://hub.mender.io/u/mzedel)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/setting-artifact-description-within-yocto/2450/3 "2020-09-16T11:13:25Z")

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Yes, the description is only shown/ editable in the frontend, stored in the backend and not read from an artifact. It is however possible to set the description on upload as a formdata parameter [the corresponding api docs might help](https://docs.mender.io/api/?shell#upload-artifact) or [edit the uploaded artifact using the id](https://docs.mender.io/api/?shell#update-artifact-info) which is exactly what the UI does when the description is changed. Both might be an option in a script…

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**Author:** ![miklosj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@miklosj](https://hub.mender.io/u/miklosj)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/setting-artifact-description-within-yocto/2450/4 "2020-09-18T08:00:50Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion! The API looks promising.